I am increasingly disheartened by the obsession over “Desktop SteamOS”. People don’t want Linux or even “a desktop computer”
They want a video game console experience on their PC. Some other company manages everything and they just run updates any time people post stability memes.
Which… is not too much of a shock considering the trajectory of things over the past decade or two. But also more or less confirms that things are gonna go real bad from a computing standpoint (as opposed to every other standpoint where we already know this…) over the next decade or so.
But it SHOULD at least mean Valve can be confident about releasing the Steam Box 2 (meh) and associated Steam Link 2 (woo) and Steam Controller 2 (HELL YEAH!!!) sooner than later. So… silver lining?
I get the vibe of what you’re saying but SteamOS is only slightly less customisable than other distributions and so it’s pretty much a more stable, fully featured distribution in the end. With plenty of opportunity to learn and tinker.
So it could be a bit of a gateway drug to a less passive mindset but well see.
I am increasingly disheartened by the obsession over “Desktop SteamOS”. People don’t want Linux or even “a desktop computer”
They want a video game console experience on their PC. Some other company manages everything and they just run updates any time people post stability memes.
Which… is not too much of a shock considering the trajectory of things over the past decade or two. But also more or less confirms that things are gonna go real bad from a computing standpoint (as opposed to every other standpoint where we already know this…) over the next decade or so.
But it SHOULD at least mean Valve can be confident about releasing the Steam Box 2 (meh) and associated Steam Link 2 (woo) and Steam Controller 2 (HELL YEAH!!!) sooner than later. So… silver lining?
I get the vibe of what you’re saying but SteamOS is only slightly less customisable than other distributions and so it’s pretty much a more stable, fully featured distribution in the end. With plenty of opportunity to learn and tinker.
So it could be a bit of a gateway drug to a less passive mindset but well see.